Welcome everybody to Season 10 of Underserved, episode number 113.

Joining me today in studio is Rob Salvador, CEO of Digibild.

Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry,

where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights, and their lessons learned.

And now, your host, Andrew Jalina.

Rob, thank you so much for joining us today on Underserved.

Happy to be here, Andrew.

Thanks for having me and excited to get into it.

So back in the early 2000s, your tech focus was mostly around being an online poker player.

What was that like?

I grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago, and throughout high school, right in high school and early college for me was the big poker boom, if you remember kind of early 2000s, full tilt poker, poker stars. It was all over ESPN and there was a big hype around it. I would one of those, I guess you call nerds that would play, you know, 10, 12 rooms at a time, made good money off of it. Obviously learned a lot. Back then,

it was very much thought of Texas Holden Poker was thought as a game of skill. Incorporated game

theory and psychology and reading people and, you know, bank role management and things like that.

So it was a great experience. I thought that was going to be my life, you know, for a long time. There

was good careers, people making, you know, good a long time. There was good careers, people making,

you know, good careers doing that. But unfortunately, I was playing online. I wasn't going to the

casinos. And then one day, the Department of Justice shut down poker. It was a big deal. It was

called Black Friday in poker. And all of our money was frozen. My future life or so I thought was definitely stopped. And it was a

tough time for a couple of years because a lot of people who, you know, were making careers out of that

were having the rug taken out from under them. A few questions about your online career. You're

multitabling. You're playing tons of them at once. Are you playing no limit all the time? Are you

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